We like to think that attitudes to sexual violence are changing. We are indebted also to the #MeToo movement, which is helping to shatter a culture of impunity that protected abusers. If we needed reminding of the scale of the task ahead, it came this week in the alarming findings of a survey of college students’ sexual experiences. Some 66 per cent of students in third year or above said they had experienced sexual harassment since beginning college. The planned large-scale survey of sexual violence by the Central Statistics Office cannot happen soon enough.

Source: The Irish Times June 23, 2020 18:56 UTC